EEL News Service 2004/02, 29 January 2004

Added to the Case law page:

* Case C-235/02, Saetti en Frediani, ECJ 15 January 2004

Waste or no waste, that’s the question. In this order, the Court explains that products deliberately produced, even if they are a byproduct, and used as fuel (which needs to be certain in advance, as the ECJ already explained in Case C-114/01, AvestaPolarit) do not need to be qualified as waste under the Waste Framework Directive 75/442. Note: Dutch language version for the time being, until English translation becomes available.

Added to the Links page:

* Presidency: Ireland

* Future presidency: The Netherlands

National pages:

* The Netherlands updated

Documents page:

* Communication from the Commission to the Council and the EP, The World Summit on Sustainable Development one year on: implementing our commitments, Brussels, 23.12.2003, COM(2003) 829 final

In this 25 page document, the modest progress so far in implementing the commitments made in Johannesburg are described.

This bilingual booklet presents a series of contributions on the present system of environment protection in Russia. The authors have different background, ranging from academics to politicians and industry representatives, and sketch a grim picture of the bureaucratic Russian system of permitting and environmental fees. Plans for improving this system, notably where legislative drafts for a new system of environmental fees, integrated permitting and Kyoto mechanisms, are also touched upon.